Girls felt my power at 135, so I believe I can cause the same effect at 125.

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them.

The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback.

I never understood bands who were only influenced by a narrow era of, say, five years of music.

I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard...

I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.

Carrot Top... I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

The sun never sets on my gallery.

I think a lot of guys are influenced by 'Pinata.' I fathered a lot of styles off that album.

I think that Tiger Woods takes over so much that if he wasn't around, if he had retired, the golf world would be in serious difficulties.

My biggest influence is my big brother.

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

People focus too much on whether there's a Democrat or a Republican in office. It's not like this guy Kim Jong Un got into power the second Trump got into power. It's not like he wasn't a problem....

I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

I think that it's very important that whoever is in office can trust the U.S. military to provide him with advice in private so that advice is not then used by somebody to try to criticize the...

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Being like them doesn't help them. Being like them just encourages them to continue being the way they are.

Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.

The cost of independence has dropped.

My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them. My mother does not own my eyes, though she frequently directs their focus. My mother does not own my mind, though she yields great...

When you fully focus your mind, you make others attracted to you.

Kids don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them.

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

No amount of titles, degrees, trades, designations, awards, licenses, or any other credential can substitute for basic integrity when we talk about the power to influence others.

tell the truth interestingly.

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they...